National Institute of Technologies ( NIT )
( Formerly Regional Engineering Colleges )

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National Institutes of Technology (NITs) are premier colleges of engineering and technology education in India. They were originally called Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs). In 2002, the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, decided to upgrade, in phases, all the original 17 Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs) as National Institutes of Technology (NITs). There are currently 20 NITs, the latest being NIT, Agartala. The Government of India has introduced the National Institutes of Technology (NIT) Act 2007 to bring 20 such institutions within the ambit of the act and to provide them with complete autonomy in their functioning. The NITs are deliberately scattered throughout the country in line with the government norm of an NIT in every major state of India to promote regional development. The individual NITs, after the introduction of the NIT Act, have been functioning as autonomous technical universities and hence can draft their own curriculum and functioning policies.

Admissions in the NITs are done through a merit list published after the result of All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE )

List of NITs

A) National Institutes of Technology (NITs) Existing NITs:

1. National Institute of Technology [NIT], Agartala , Tripura (website : www.nitagartala.in ) 
2. Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology [MNNIT], Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh (website : www.mnnit.ac.in )
3. Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology[MANIT], Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh (website : www.manit.ac.in )
4. National Institute of Technology [NIT], Calicut, Kerala (website : www.nitc.ac.in )
5. National Institute of Technology [NIT], Durgapur, West Bengal (website : www.nitdgp.ac.in )
6. National Institute of Technology [NIT], Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh (website : www.nith.ac.in  )
7. Malaviya National Institute of Technology [MNIT], Jaipur, Rajasthan (website : www.mnit.ac.in )
8. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology [NITJ], Jalandhar, Punjab (website : www.nitj.ac.in )
9. National Institute of Technology [NIT], Jamshedpur, Jharkhand (website : www.nitjsr.ac.in  )
10. National Institute of Technology [NIT], Kurukshetra, Haryana (website : www.nitkkr.ac.in )
11. Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology [VNIT], Nagpur, Maharashtra (website : www.vnit.ac.in )
12. National Institute of Technology [NIT], Patna , Bihar (website : www.nitp.ac.in )
13. National Institute of Technology [NIT], Raipur , Chhattisgarh (website : www.nitrr.ac.in )
14. National Institute of Technology [NIT], Rourkela, Orissa (website : www.nitrkl.ac.in )
15. National Institute of Technology [NIT], Silchar Assam (website : www.nits.ac.in )
16. National Institute of Technology [NIT], Srinagar, Kashmir (website : www.nitsri.net )
17. Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology [SVNIT], Surat, Gujarat (website : www.svnit.ac.in )
18. National Institute of Technology Karnataka [NITK], Surathkal, Karnataka (website : www.nitk.ac.in )
19. National Institute of Technology [NIT], Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu (website : www.nitt.edu/home )
20. National Institute of Technology [NIT], Warangal, Andhra Pradesh (website : www.nitw.ac.in )

New NITs* starting from the academic year 2010-11:

21. National Institute of Technology [NIT], Goa (mentored by NITK Surathkal)
22. National Institute of Technology [NIT], Manipur (mentored by NIT Agartala)
23. National Institute of Technology [NIT], Nagaland (mentored by NIT Silchar)
24. National Institute of Technology [NIT], Sikkim (mentored by NIT Calicut)

* These are the new NITs that are likely to start from the academic session 2010-11 at temporary locations. Relevant information about these institutes would be available at a later date or can be obtained from the respective mentoring institutes as given above.